Chapter 432

Seeing the way Emma and Kirra interacted made him happy but also pulled at something inside him. He’d never had a brother or sister. It had been just him, his dad, and his grandparents. He didn’t even remember his mother, not really. The only memories he had relating to her were when he would sit at the window waiting for her to arrive. After she left, she visited a few times and then the visits just stopped. He never knew why. He hadn’t seen her in twenty-six years and he had long ago thought he was over both her absence and her betrayal. She hadn’t even contacted him when his dad got sick. She hadn’t once tried to check on him to see how he was doing. Most of the time he wiped her from his brain. Pretended she was dead so that he wouldn’t spend time wondering where she was or why she had left. His father had been distraught at the time. He may have been young, but he could remember the sadness that lived in their house like an unwelcome visitor. They had moved in with his grandparent